The USA Pro Challenge dominated Steamboat Springs for a week last summer, the professional cycling race’s third stop in the city in its five-year history. Race organizers announced Friday they were suspending the 2016 version of the event.

The Jelly Belly-Maxxis cycling team’s support vehicle was easily the most popular during Stage 1 of Monday’s 2015 U.S.A Pro Challenge. Sure, the small Mazda was colorful, as a Jelly Belly car should be, but the popularity had more to do with the team's willingness to hand out its Sports Beans — basically jelly beans for athletes — to anyone who wanted to drive close enough to get some.

Stage 1 was supposed to be the easy day, but it turned into a major test. Now riders in the 2015 USA Pro Challenge face another major hurdle — or a series of them, actually — in a climb-filled Stage 2.